Watergate Conspirator Jeb Stuart Magruder Has Died

Jeb Magruder, the man who claimed to have heard President Richard Nixon order the Watergate break-in, speaks to 10TV over the years.

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Friday May 16, 2014 4:12 PMUPDATED: Friday May 16, 2014 4:26 PM

DANBURY, Conn. -

Jeb Stuart Magruder, the man who claimed to have heard President Richard Nixon order the Watergate break-in, has died. He was 79.

Jeff Hull, owner of Hull Funeral Service in Danbury, Connecticut, says Magruder died May 11 of complications from a stroke.

Magruder was a businessman who became Nixon's deputy campaign director and then served in the Republican president's administration.

He spent seven months in prison for lying about the involvement of Nixon's re-election committee in the 1972 break-in at Washington's Watergate complex. The burglary eventually led to the president's resignation.

Magruder later became a minister serving in California, Ohio and Kentucky, and a church fundraising consultant. In 2003, he moved to suburban Columbus, Ohio.

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